Hochul Plans Health Spending, Tax Changes for Post-Covid Era (3)

New York Governor Kathy Hochul on Wednesday proposed policies touching on health, middle-class taxes and infrastructure that were designed to be immediately useful for a state emerging from a pandemic that scarred its citizens and economy.

The plan, outlined in Hochul’s first State of the State speech since succeeding Andrew Cuomo, put health at the top of the to-do list, including $10 billion to increase the medical workforce by 20%, improve its training and help students and immigrants enter the field.

The governor, a Democrat, said she wants to accelerate tax cuts instituted under her predecessor in 2016. Instead ...